Governor Cuomo Briefing January 27 2021

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Day 333

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96% of all our vaccine is in arms.
We await the federal government's next vaccine allocation, likely next week.
We'll get 16% more vaccine allocation for the next 3 weeks.

There are 42 new cases of the UK variant in NY.

The covid beast has changed four times, and so we can’t predict the future.

The worst case scenario is a new variant with vaccine resistance.

If it becomes the dominant strain, the national situation and plan will have to change because this is a biological war in which the microbe is not consistent, so facts are not consistent and so plans cannot be consistent.

Vaccine administration timeline is 6-9 months for the current vaccine to kick in and bring the positivity rate down. The timeline is
— based on the Pfizer/Moderna production rate,
— not based on any governmental action;
because the federal govt cannot order by the millions of doses except as determined by Pfizer and Moderna.

The economy will not return to its old structures.

Adjustments to covid will become permanent in the post-covid economy

In all scenarios, our survival comes down to What. We. Do.